Math

Math Websites



Parent Mathematics Websites


Mathematics Resources in the BMS Library

Famous Mathematicians

You can also go to Biography Reference Center on and type in your Mathematician's name or Mathematicians for a list of mathematicians.


Famous Women Mathematicians
http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm

Female Mathematicians
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Indexes/Women.html

Mathographies
http://scidiv.bcc.ctc.edu/Math/MathFolks.html

Mathematicians at Math.com
http://www.math.com/students/mathematicians.html

Index of Mathematicians' Biographies at St. Andrews University
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/BiogIndex.html

Math Activites for Students MathGames.com http://themathgames.com/ Exploring the area of a triangle http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=106 Math Central-- resources for teachers and students http://mathcentral.uregina.ca/ Figure This! take the math challenge http://www.figurethis.org/index.html Purple Math ---for help with algebra http://www.purplemath.com/ aaamath.com- math activities about many topics. http://www.321know.com/ Math Playground http://www.mathplayground.com/index.html

Links to specific lessons Estimation Estimating the number of cars in a parking lot. http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=L265 Grid it and Percent It http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=L249 Developing Number Sense http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=L252

Professional Organizations Illuminations Lesson Plans by the NCTM National Council of Teachers of Mathematics AAAKnowMath Education Planet Math Forum from Drexel University Mathworld AllMath

Geometry and Measurement Circles, Diameter, Radius and Pi Tessellations Translations, Reflections, Rotation Data and Graphing Lessons Alphabet Soup- Recognizing the Mean, Mode and the Median Every Breath You Take Eat Your Veggies- using a variety of graphs Representing Data- applying data to real world situations Weather Watchers- stem leaf plots Algebraic Reasoning- Patterns and Functions Patterns that Grow Two Problems that can be Solved in Several Different Ways Sets and Venn Diagrams